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mIllllll IIIlIIl lillI l lU HlIl Iml lnnllll l lilI I Ilu iH
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&
There
hlI IfIIIIfl llHlIIE lllIIIE Il hllIf l lUllUhIIlh ll HllhIE
By Betty Rockwood
Faculty members as well as
students, find trouble in mak-ing
their eight o'clocks. Dr.
Schultz complains that he just
can't get into the "swing of
things."
Rush week seemed to be a
success judging from the qual-ity
and quantity of pledges that
sororities and fraternities have.
Mary Bell Pitts had a double
thrill last Tuesday-she left for
California, on the same day she
pledged. The Sigma Kappas
took her to the train, en masse,
and presented her with flowers.
Mary Bell won her trip to Cali-fornia
through the Pantagraph.
popularity contest. She expects
to be gone this week.
Bob Duncan has returned to
Wesleyan this year after spend-ing
a year at the University of
Alaska. He certainly must have
had some interesting experi-ences
while he was away-in
fact he liked the country so
much that he professed a de-sire
to return in the near fu-ture.
Several of our fair maidens
have had a very profitable sum-mer
romantically speaking.
Congratulations to Olyvia Jen-son,
Eleanor Lane, and 'Bunny'
Wilson! And then there were
a few pins that went back-there
always are!
The Tekes opened the social
(Continued on page 8)
Ward H. Powell
assumes duties
at Wesleyan
Ward H. Powell of Minden,
Neb., assumed his duties as in-structor
in German and Eng-lish
at Wesleyan with the open-ing
of classes last Wednesday
morning, following his signing
of a contract Tuesday morning.
Mr. Powell received his bache-lor
of arts degree from the Uni-versity
of Nebraska in 1938. In
1938-39 he spent two semesters
at the University of Jena, Ger-many
as an exchange student.
The following year he com-pleted
work on his master's de-gree
at the University of Neb-raska,
holding a position of
graduate assistant in the English
department during that time.
The new instructor is a mem-ber
of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
and the Prebyterian church.
With the signing of Mr. Powell
the faculty roster for the year
was completed. Two other in-structors
held their first classes
at Wesleyan on Wednesday
morning when Miss Hazel Do-nart
and M. B. Stokes took over
their duties as voice instructor
and head of the philosophy de-partment
respectively.
r .HE ARGUS
Illinois WesleyaYn University
VOL. 48 z-134 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940 NO. 2
Three file for
Homecoming
chairmanship
Milich, O'Kane
and Evans seek
position
Mike Milich, Dave Evans, and
Paul O'Kane yesterday signi-fied
their desire to be named
chairman of Wesleyan's annual
Homecoming festivities by filing
applications for the position be-for
the 4 o'clock deadline for
the receipt of applications set
by the Student Union.
All three applicants for the
chairmanship are members of
the junior class and have been
active in various school activ-ities
during their college careers.
Milich is a member of Phi
Gamma Delta, Evans a member
of Beta Kappa, and O'Kane is
a member of Sigma Chi.
To be Chosen Soon
The final naming of the
Homecoming chairman will be
done at a meeting of the Stu-dent
Union to be called into
special session by President
Larry Smith sometime within
the next few days.
With the naming of the chair-man
for the big event, Home-coming
prelimiziaries which
have already been discussed by
many groups on the campus,
will begin to take on a more
definite shape.
One of the first issues to be
decided following the selection
of chairman for the big event
will be the contracting of a
band to preside at the Home-coming
dance to be held Satur-day
evening, Oct. 19, following
the game with the U.S. Naval
Fliers in the "new" stadium.
Herbie Kay played for the dance
last year and it is hoped that
another "big name" band will
be made available this year.
Many Events Likely
Best salesmen to receive trophies
in 'Blitzkrieg' ticket campaign
A ticket selling campaign to
dispose of season tickets for
Wesleyan's four ]home games
with attractive cups to be
awarded the groups and person
selling the most tickets in each
of three classes will be the fea-ture
of the day next Thursday
when the entire I.W.U. student
body will follow the marching.
band into the Bloomington busi-ness
district in a 'blitzkrieg'
campaign.
Trophies will be given to the
sorority and fraternity Whose
members dispose of the greatest
number of season ducats with
an additional trophy going to
the independent who sells the
most tickets. The men's coop-erative
house will be included
among the fraternities.
In preparation for the big
'putsch' into the heart of the
city, the assembly period next
Thursday wlil be devoted to a
pep assembly to give the team
a rousing sendoff on what
promises to be a most success-ful
grid season.
Classes Dismissed
Another feature which should
meet with the approval of most
of the 'students' will be the dis-missal
of 11 o'clock classes by
order of Dean Love. This will
mean that all salesmen can
work until noon to raise their
quota to a maximum. There
are no restrictions regarding the
territory which may be pene-trated
by students in this cam-paign.
The contest will close at 6
o'clock Thursday evening and
further announcement will be
made regarding the final check-up.
Spencer Green
No definite announcement re- I
garding the various Homecom- of new alm a m
ing projects, which are all a
part of this all important week- The feature of the assembly
end, can be made pending the period yesterday morning was
naming of the head man, but the inauguration of an alma
it is expected that many events mater song for Wesleyan com-which
are tradition on Wes- posed by Spencer Green, in-leyan's
campus will again be a structor in voice at Wesleyan's
part of the festivities. School of Music.
House decorations, the Home- Mr. Green composed both the
coming parade, the Queen, the words and music for the song,
play, the Greek sing, are all which is entitled "Dear Old
events which have a familiar Wesleyan."
ring to upperclassmen and The presentation of the new
alums alike. song was part of a program de-o%-
A-v 9 ^ 4L w %4- \
The cast for the Homecoming
play, "You Can't Take Iit With
You," is in the process of being
selected by director E. Melba
Johnson and first call for re-hearsal
will probably be sounded
within a few days.
signed to acquaint iilesllme
with words and music of all
songs in preparation for the
big pep session to be staged on
Thursday morning.
As yet the song has only pi-ano
accompaniment, but it is
Highlights of the assembly.
before the parade gets under
way will include short talks by
Coaches Heap and Voigts and,
a word or two from the captain
of the 1940 Titan eleven, Bob
'Bustem' Morrow. The cheer-leaders
will also be on hand to
lead cheers and the program
will mark the initial appear-ance
of the marching band for
the season.
The portable transmitter of
WJBC will be on hand to broad-cast
all the features of the
event and will follow the stud-ents
downtown to bring the
happenings of the day to many
other residents of Bloomington
and surrounding territory.
Seniors to' Speak
At some time in the near fu-ture,
Guy Wallace, ace sports
announcer on the WJBC staff.
will interview both Morrow and
Don Drumm over one of his
;regulair broadcasts from the
studio.
The four games which holders
of season tickets will be per-mitted
to attend include Car-roll
college on September 28, Illi-nois
on October 5, the Home-coming
show against the Naval
fliers from the U.S. Naval air
base on October 19, and the
home finale with Millikin uni-versity
on November 16.
The price of season tickets
this year is only $3 and with
this factor coupled with the
splendid prospects of the Ti-tans
it is expected that the
attendance at all Wesleyan con-tests
in the "new" stadium will
be boosted considerably this
season.
is composer
ater song
hoped that a band arrange-ment
will be made in the near
future to make the song avail-able
ifor all occasions.
The writing of this song by
Mr. Green marks the second en-try
of a member of the faculty
into the school song writing
field. Dr. W. E. Schultz, hea
of the English department,
wrote the words for "Alma Wes-leyana,"
long a favorite with
Wesleyan students and alums.
There will be an important
meeting of all members of
The Argus staff and all per-sons
interested in working on
The Argus at 1 p.m. today in
the reception room of Presser
Hall.
Final decision
to rest with
faculty committee
The rather ancient discussion
among Wesleyan students as to
the advisability and possibility
of permitting unlimited cuts for
students who maintained at
least a B average for the pre-vious
semester, will reach a
semi-climax next M o n d a y
morning when a vote will be
taken in assembly by the stud-ent
union to determine stud-dent
opinion.
At a meeting last Thursday
night the union approved the
suggestion of Mike Milich that
the proposition be laid before
the student body in one of the
assembly periods in the near
future and the results be re-ferred
to a faculty committee
which will render the final de-cision.
Should Please All
The question of the unlimited
cut system for those students
with an average grade of B or
better has long been 'hanging
fire' on the campus and it is
hoped that these proceedings
will produce an arrangement
that is satisfactory to both the
student body and the faculty.
Many arguments both for and
against the proposition have
been voiced by representatives
of both groups in the past with
apparent logic underlying the
reasons of both.
Many faculty members and in
some cases, students, fear that
the granting of unlimited cuts
to some students might reduce
the membership in some classes
to a point where it would be
unprofitable for certain projects
to be carried out due to a lack
of students. This group also
emphasizes the fact that a
great deal of the knowledge
gained in classrooms comes
through discussions with the
other members of the class and
if the best 'scholars were al-lowed
to miss all the classes
which they did not feel inclin-ed
to attend, the leaders of those
discussions, in most instances,
would be among those who
would fail to respond to the roll.
Aid to Scholarship
On the other hand, many ad-vocators
of the unlimited cut
system point out that in order
that they might join the ranks
of the 'privileged', many stud-ents
with much ability but an
apparent lack of ambition
would be spurred to greater
heights in scholastic pursuits.
In placing the proposition be-fore
the student body the stud-ent
union hopes that each per-son
will cast his ballot in ac-cordance
with his own senti-ments
and not feel that this
system, if adopted, will not af-fect
him.
Students Will Ballot on System of
Unlimited Cuts in Monday Assembly
SI

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mIllllll IIIlIIl lillI l lU HlIl Iml lnnllll l lilI I Ilu iH
Her e
&
There
hlI IfIIIIfl llHlIIE lllIIIE Il hllIf l lUllUhIIlh ll HllhIE
By Betty Rockwood
Faculty members as well as
students, find trouble in mak-ing
their eight o'clocks. Dr.
Schultz complains that he just
can't get into the "swing of
things."
Rush week seemed to be a
success judging from the qual-ity
and quantity of pledges that
sororities and fraternities have.
Mary Bell Pitts had a double
thrill last Tuesday-she left for
California, on the same day she
pledged. The Sigma Kappas
took her to the train, en masse,
and presented her with flowers.
Mary Bell won her trip to Cali-fornia
through the Pantagraph.
popularity contest. She expects
to be gone this week.
Bob Duncan has returned to
Wesleyan this year after spend-ing
a year at the University of
Alaska. He certainly must have
had some interesting experi-ences
while he was away-in
fact he liked the country so
much that he professed a de-sire
to return in the near fu-ture.
Several of our fair maidens
have had a very profitable sum-mer
romantically speaking.
Congratulations to Olyvia Jen-son,
Eleanor Lane, and 'Bunny'
Wilson! And then there were
a few pins that went back-there
always are!
The Tekes opened the social
(Continued on page 8)
Ward H. Powell
assumes duties
at Wesleyan
Ward H. Powell of Minden,
Neb., assumed his duties as in-structor
in German and Eng-lish
at Wesleyan with the open-ing
of classes last Wednesday
morning, following his signing
of a contract Tuesday morning.
Mr. Powell received his bache-lor
of arts degree from the Uni-versity
of Nebraska in 1938. In
1938-39 he spent two semesters
at the University of Jena, Ger-many
as an exchange student.
The following year he com-pleted
work on his master's de-gree
at the University of Neb-raska,
holding a position of
graduate assistant in the English
department during that time.
The new instructor is a mem-ber
of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
and the Prebyterian church.
With the signing of Mr. Powell
the faculty roster for the year
was completed. Two other in-structors
held their first classes
at Wesleyan on Wednesday
morning when Miss Hazel Do-nart
and M. B. Stokes took over
their duties as voice instructor
and head of the philosophy de-partment
respectively.
r .HE ARGUS
Illinois WesleyaYn University
VOL. 48 z-134 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940 NO. 2
Three file for
Homecoming
chairmanship
Milich, O'Kane
and Evans seek
position
Mike Milich, Dave Evans, and
Paul O'Kane yesterday signi-fied
their desire to be named
chairman of Wesleyan's annual
Homecoming festivities by filing
applications for the position be-for
the 4 o'clock deadline for
the receipt of applications set
by the Student Union.
All three applicants for the
chairmanship are members of
the junior class and have been
active in various school activ-ities
during their college careers.
Milich is a member of Phi
Gamma Delta, Evans a member
of Beta Kappa, and O'Kane is
a member of Sigma Chi.
To be Chosen Soon
The final naming of the
Homecoming chairman will be
done at a meeting of the Stu-dent
Union to be called into
special session by President
Larry Smith sometime within
the next few days.
With the naming of the chair-man
for the big event, Home-coming
prelimiziaries which
have already been discussed by
many groups on the campus,
will begin to take on a more
definite shape.
One of the first issues to be
decided following the selection
of chairman for the big event
will be the contracting of a
band to preside at the Home-coming
dance to be held Satur-day
evening, Oct. 19, following
the game with the U.S. Naval
Fliers in the "new" stadium.
Herbie Kay played for the dance
last year and it is hoped that
another "big name" band will
be made available this year.
Many Events Likely
Best salesmen to receive trophies
in 'Blitzkrieg' ticket campaign
A ticket selling campaign to
dispose of season tickets for
Wesleyan's four ]home games
with attractive cups to be
awarded the groups and person
selling the most tickets in each
of three classes will be the fea-ture
of the day next Thursday
when the entire I.W.U. student
body will follow the marching.
band into the Bloomington busi-ness
district in a 'blitzkrieg'
campaign.
Trophies will be given to the
sorority and fraternity Whose
members dispose of the greatest
number of season ducats with
an additional trophy going to
the independent who sells the
most tickets. The men's coop-erative
house will be included
among the fraternities.
In preparation for the big
'putsch' into the heart of the
city, the assembly period next
Thursday wlil be devoted to a
pep assembly to give the team
a rousing sendoff on what
promises to be a most success-ful
grid season.
Classes Dismissed
Another feature which should
meet with the approval of most
of the 'students' will be the dis-missal
of 11 o'clock classes by
order of Dean Love. This will
mean that all salesmen can
work until noon to raise their
quota to a maximum. There
are no restrictions regarding the
territory which may be pene-trated
by students in this cam-paign.
The contest will close at 6
o'clock Thursday evening and
further announcement will be
made regarding the final check-up.
Spencer Green
No definite announcement re- I
garding the various Homecom- of new alm a m
ing projects, which are all a
part of this all important week- The feature of the assembly
end, can be made pending the period yesterday morning was
naming of the head man, but the inauguration of an alma
it is expected that many events mater song for Wesleyan com-which
are tradition on Wes- posed by Spencer Green, in-leyan's
campus will again be a structor in voice at Wesleyan's
part of the festivities. School of Music.
House decorations, the Home- Mr. Green composed both the
coming parade, the Queen, the words and music for the song,
play, the Greek sing, are all which is entitled "Dear Old
events which have a familiar Wesleyan."
ring to upperclassmen and The presentation of the new
alums alike. song was part of a program de-o%-
A-v 9 ^ 4L w %4- \
The cast for the Homecoming
play, "You Can't Take Iit With
You," is in the process of being
selected by director E. Melba
Johnson and first call for re-hearsal
will probably be sounded
within a few days.
signed to acquaint iilesllme
with words and music of all
songs in preparation for the
big pep session to be staged on
Thursday morning.
As yet the song has only pi-ano
accompaniment, but it is
Highlights of the assembly.
before the parade gets under
way will include short talks by
Coaches Heap and Voigts and,
a word or two from the captain
of the 1940 Titan eleven, Bob
'Bustem' Morrow. The cheer-leaders
will also be on hand to
lead cheers and the program
will mark the initial appear-ance
of the marching band for
the season.
The portable transmitter of
WJBC will be on hand to broad-cast
all the features of the
event and will follow the stud-ents
downtown to bring the
happenings of the day to many
other residents of Bloomington
and surrounding territory.
Seniors to' Speak
At some time in the near fu-ture,
Guy Wallace, ace sports
announcer on the WJBC staff.
will interview both Morrow and
Don Drumm over one of his
;regulair broadcasts from the
studio.
The four games which holders
of season tickets will be per-mitted
to attend include Car-roll
college on September 28, Illi-nois
on October 5, the Home-coming
show against the Naval
fliers from the U.S. Naval air
base on October 19, and the
home finale with Millikin uni-versity
on November 16.
The price of season tickets
this year is only $3 and with
this factor coupled with the
splendid prospects of the Ti-tans
it is expected that the
attendance at all Wesleyan con-tests
in the "new" stadium will
be boosted considerably this
season.
is composer
ater song
hoped that a band arrange-ment
will be made in the near
future to make the song avail-able
ifor all occasions.
The writing of this song by
Mr. Green marks the second en-try
of a member of the faculty
into the school song writing
field. Dr. W. E. Schultz, hea
of the English department,
wrote the words for "Alma Wes-leyana,"
long a favorite with
Wesleyan students and alums.
There will be an important
meeting of all members of
The Argus staff and all per-sons
interested in working on
The Argus at 1 p.m. today in
the reception room of Presser
Hall.
Final decision
to rest with
faculty committee
The rather ancient discussion
among Wesleyan students as to
the advisability and possibility
of permitting unlimited cuts for
students who maintained at
least a B average for the pre-vious
semester, will reach a
semi-climax next M o n d a y
morning when a vote will be
taken in assembly by the stud-ent
union to determine stud-dent
opinion.
At a meeting last Thursday
night the union approved the
suggestion of Mike Milich that
the proposition be laid before
the student body in one of the
assembly periods in the near
future and the results be re-ferred
to a faculty committee
which will render the final de-cision.
Should Please All
The question of the unlimited
cut system for those students
with an average grade of B or
better has long been 'hanging
fire' on the campus and it is
hoped that these proceedings
will produce an arrangement
that is satisfactory to both the
student body and the faculty.
Many arguments both for and
against the proposition have
been voiced by representatives
of both groups in the past with
apparent logic underlying the
reasons of both.
Many faculty members and in
some cases, students, fear that
the granting of unlimited cuts
to some students might reduce
the membership in some classes
to a point where it would be
unprofitable for certain projects
to be carried out due to a lack
of students. This group also
emphasizes the fact that a
great deal of the knowledge
gained in classrooms comes
through discussions with the
other members of the class and
if the best 'scholars were al-lowed
to miss all the classes
which they did not feel inclin-ed
to attend, the leaders of those
discussions, in most instances,
would be among those who
would fail to respond to the roll.
Aid to Scholarship
On the other hand, many ad-vocators
of the unlimited cut
system point out that in order
that they might join the ranks
of the 'privileged', many stud-ents
with much ability but an
apparent lack of ambition
would be spurred to greater
heights in scholastic pursuits.
In placing the proposition be-fore
the student body the stud-ent
union hopes that each per-son
will cast his ballot in ac-cordance
with his own senti-ments
and not feel that this
system, if adopted, will not af-fect
him.
Students Will Ballot on System of
Unlimited Cuts in Monday Assembly
SI